The births of my two children
are memorable to me each in their own way.
I remember everything about both of them. With both of my pregnancies being
not stressful nor did I experience any complications but there were a few hiccups
along the way. For this blog post I will tell about my son,
Xavier, is my first born. He was born on
Monday, January 18, 1993 at 12:34 pm. My labor started about 3:00am with my
stomach hurting and I thought I had to go to the bathroom but I didn’t. After about the third trip to the bathroom
and nothing happening I figured out that I was in labor. I chose to go back to bed because first is was
not hurting that bad, secondly I did not want to go to the hospital and they
send me back home, and thirdly I had an appointment at 8:00am for a stress test
because my son was two weeks past his due date.
Well by 7:00am I was in the bathroom using the toilet for one thing and
the sink for vomiting. By the time I arrived at the hospital I was more pain
and informed the tech that I was in labor and she was ok just get undressed and
we will get started. I got undressed and
laid on the bed she came to hook up the monitors and ran to the telephone
informing the labor/delivery that she needed a doctor stat. When the doctor arrived
she said that I was dilated 5 cm. and in full labor. I told the doctor that I had informed the
tech that I was in labor the doctor looked at my chart and said this can’t be
your first pregnancy. I told her it was,
why. She said because you are not screaming or anything. I told her it does not
hurt that bad yet. It hurts the most when I walk. By 10am, I was informing the nurse and
doctors that it was hurting and that I needed that epidural for pain. When I received the epidural my labor slowed down
and I could not feel my contractions. The nurse told me when I was having a contraction
and they were causing me to shake. By 11am
I had shot from 7 cm. to 12 in just 10 minutes.
My son was born at 11:34am on the first federal observation of Dr.
Martin L. King Jr.’s Birthday. He was
kept in the hospital an extra day for breathing issues but was released the
next day. While he was diagnosed with
asthma during infancy, his father nor I have it but it does run in my family. This
doctor said that he could not be out in extreme heat nor extreme cold and had
the Asthma Foundation deliver him a portable nebulizer machine for his
breathing treatments. Today nearly 20
years later I have a young man that has graduated from high school and
currently attending a prep cook program that he is to graduate from the week
after Thanksgiving. With his asthma
triggering only when he gets a cold and has no major problems in any weather
climate but heat is still not a best friend to him.
I decided to read about
the birth practices is England. In an
online article, Study backs home births for mothers (Belfast Telegraph, 2012), I
read that it is cost effective to have a child at home or by midwife. This is only for mothers that have no
indicators or are not at risk of complications.
The cost associated with having a child in a hospital environment is
considered several hundred UK pounds more expensive than a home birth. While most of the information I read on
births on England compared the style in which is cost effective for child
births. I can say that all women experience birth risks whether it be health
wise or deliver. We are all the same
despite where you live and this is explained and pointed out in Kimmelin Hull’s
(2012) blog article. .
References
Belfast Telegraph. (2012). Study backs home births
for mothers. Beleast Telegraph. Retrieved October 5, 2012 from www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Hull, Kimmelin. (2011). Birth Outcomes by Birth
Locations: The Latest Study. Science & Sensibility. Retrieved October 5,
2012 from www.scienceandsensibility.org
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